Review - Blood & Chocolate
BLOOD & CHOCOLATE [PG-13]
It is a fairly common storyline — boy meets girl, girl refuses boy, boy persists until he finds out girl is a pureblood werewolf. This tepid, Romanian-shot, sort-of horror story is about 19-year-old sweet thing Vivian (Agnes Bruckner), who is pursued by starving artist/lycophile Aiden (Hugh Dancy), who is unaware that Vivian is a werewolf. She and the “den” are fully protected by their master, Gabriel (Olivier Martinez), who forces humans who have dishonored any member of their pack on a life-and-death chase through the woods. Working from Annette Curtis Klause’s young adult novel, usually skilled German director Katja von Garnier takes a standard story and makes it even more standard. Lazily filling her world with a too-attractive cast and an obvious rock score, von Garnier seems lost as to where she wants it to go, or even what genre the film is (it only works occasionally […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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